WRITING
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Threshold: Drama/horror, hour-long. (*Official Selection: Circle of Confusion Writer’s Discovery Fellowship.)
Set in an old boarding school, Lavender, a fresh-out-of-juvie teen, confronts personal and literal demons when ghosts of the school call upon her to expose their dark secrets.
Darcy & Pantero: Animation, half-hour (age Y8)
A stray cat’s rigid idea of home is debunked when he is adopted by a van-lifer on a quest to bring color and light to a graying world.
Pokers: Com-Drama, half-hour.
A cards-loving anesthesiologist in an underfunded country hospital struggles to maintain a work/life balance.
EPISODIC SPEC SCRIPTS:
Succession (Season 3: “Father of the Year.”) Logline: Kendall leaves the limelight to pursue being a father, but being present for his neurodivergent son proves challenging.
Bob’s Burgers (“Viral-ing Out Of Control.”) When Linda makes a VidByte account for the restaurant, she get carried away in her sudden internet stardom.
PILOTS
SCREENPLAYS
Through The Grapevine (or India Nite): Thriller/Comedy
Reshma’s self-arranged fiancee is murdered during a Midwestern college town’s annual South Asian cultural concert...and all eyes are on her.
Grounded in Reality: Rom-Com
An emergency plane landing for a flight carrying contestants to the set of reality TV show “Nude and Confused” prompts flight attendant Mari and contestant/former pilot Devin to ponder life, love, and what went wrong in their friendship.
The Annual Singh Family Firework Show
Set over four 4th of Julys (‘04, ‘10, ‘16, and ‘22) in rural Missouri, “The Annual Singh Family Firework Show” is an epic that explores the myth of the American Dream and its use as a mechanism to outrun oneself for matriarch Harpreet and her wealthy Punjabi family, who all inexplicably love to blow shit up… (literally.)
Departure
J and N grew up queer in a fraught, small-town environment, but before that, they were together, and long before that, they were connected through space, time, and an otherwise flighty Sense of Security. When J’s life tragically ends, they must learn how to love each other all over again. Departure is a coming-of-age, non-linear, magical realism play that dives into faith, medical accessibility, the invincible fable, the multi-dimensionality of love, and the nebulous in-between.
To Tame a River (or Sohni Mahiwal)
Sohni Mahiwal is an 18th century Punjabi folk tale/tragic romance told in modern vernacular that highlights the universality and complexity of love (in its many expressions) and follows individual struggles for control in a world that offers anything but. (Cast of 8, South Asian/Middle Eastern)
EXCERPT COMING SOON
IN PROGRESS:
Untitled Insulin Play
After their best friend suddenly passes from DKA, Maya and Gideon become involved in an insulin black market in hopes use their grief as fuel to put some good in the world. But a grave operational mishap catapults into question their relationships with each other, with their grief, and with their own sense of purpose.
TEN-MINUTE (samples to come)
A Day in the Life of the Dumbest Person Alive
Mourning Star
PLAYS
FULL LENGTH